Several years ago, East High School Assistant Principal Karen Carey set out chessboards in the lunchroom for students to play during lunch. "It became a competition sort of thing," Carey said. "I ...

It’s a conundrum that Ben Mezrich, a prolific and successful non-fiction writer, probes in Checkmate: Genius, Scandal and the Billion-Dollar rise of Chess. Mezrich is the author of The Accidental ...

At Saint Joseph's University, hundreds of kids gathered on Saturday for the 17th annual PECO-ASAP Checkmate Violence Chess Marathon. It's where Brandon Tran, 16, is learning skills to, not only win at ...